. First lessons on agriculture [microform] : for Canadian farmers and their families. Agriculture; Agriculture. r * t rKEPARATORT KNOWLEDGE APPLIED. 121 three crops of wheat, alternating with crops of clover (.)«trn is p uuter' on the Beld from which rje had been gathered the year previous, the stub- bles of which are ploughed down in the fall. Clover seed is sown early in the spring on two of the wheat fields, those which have been most recently manured. By this method, each field yields three crops of wheat, two of clover, one of rye, and one of corn^ every eight years. Each field, in the m
. First lessons on agriculture [microform] : for Canadian farmers and their families. Agriculture; Agriculture. r * t rKEPARATORT KNOWLEDGE APPLIED. 121 three crops of wheat, alternating with crops of clover (.)«trn is p uuter' on the Beld from which rje had been gathered the year previous, the stub- bles of which are ploughed down in the fall. Clover seed is sown early in the spring on two of the wheat fields, those which have been most recently manured. By this method, each field yields three crops of wheat, two of clover, one of rye, and one of corn^ every eight years. Each field, in the mean- time, has lain an open fallow, and received a heavy dressing of manure, perhaps at an average 15 four- horse loads per acre. His crop of wheat is seldom less than. 1,500 bushels, but often much more. His average rye-crop is about 450 bushels; and his corn- crop, annually about 600 bushelsâall which grain, at the present low prices, would amount to more than $2,000 annually, and at former prices to double tiiat amount; and his farm is with all very highly ; Notes.â1. The author of the New American Farm Book gives "for the purpose of Illustration, and the s^uidance of such as may have little experience in rotation," the following Five Systems which, he says, have been pursued with advantage in this country:" " 18/ CourseâOn grass sod, broken up. with a heavy dressing of barn-yard manure, and muck, aahes, and lime, if necessary. First, year corn, with gypsum scattered over the plants after first hoeing, which (hoeing) should be immediately after its first appearance; second year, roots with manure; third year, wheat, if adapted to the soil. if not, then barley, rye, or oats, with grass or clover seed, or both; fourth year, meadow, which may be continued at pleasure, or till the grass or clover gives way. The meadow may be followed by pasturing if desired. Clover alone should not remain over two years as meadow; but for pasture, it may be
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